Elizabeth "Betty" Hahn Bernbaum (March 20, 1918 – June 20, 2003) was an American ambassador's wife and writer.

[1] She was decorated by the President of Ecuador for her amateur radio work, and wrote a memoir, Adventures in Latin America: The Life of One Foreign Service Wife (1992).

[2] Her cousin Gilbert J. Hahn Jr. was appointed chair of the Washington City Council from 1969 to 1972.

[4] Bernbaum, called "a ball of diplomatic fire",[1] accompanied her husband when he served as United States ambassador in Ecuador and Venezuela, and at other appointments in Nicaragua and Washington, D.C.[5][6] In Ecuador she organized embassy wives and worked with the General Federation of Women's Clubs in the US, to provide supplies, books, and furniture to Ecuadorean schools.

[8][9] In 1949, her emergency broadcasts helped direct timely assistance to survivors of the Ambato earthquake, and she received the Order of Merit from Galo Plaza, the President of Ecuador, for her lifesaving radio work.